F/A-18 Airframe Logs 6 Million Flight Hours
PATUXENT RIVER, Md: The F/A-18 airframe design – which includes Hornet and Super Hornet generations – reached a milestone of having logged six million accumulated flight hours, Aug. 3.
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots accumulated most of the flight hours, with help from aviators representing seven foreign nations that fly the Hornet. These include the air forces of Canada, Australia, Spain, Kuwait, Finland, Switzerland and Malaysia.
U.S. planes logged about 4,700,000 of the total flight hours.
“I have flown this aircraft from Kosovo to Afghanistan to Iraq to Japan. It has been an awesome plane, and I look forward to many more hours flying it,” said Maj. Jeff Ertwine of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, “The Green Knights,” who flew the milestone during a local training hop from Iwakuni, Japan.
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August 31, 2005 at 5:51 pm